Career Summary

Qualifications

Research

Research keywords

Psycho-social/ Behavioural

Public Health

Research expertise

Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher is internationally recognised as a leader in health behavioural research. His work is known for successfully combining behavioural and public health approaches to health promotion, health service evaluation and cancer control. He has published more than 263 peer review research papers and 16 chapters in books. Rob has obtained numerous research grants, including program grants from the NHMRC and other competitive funding agencies. His current research interests are in changing health care providers clinical behaviour so that it more closely approximates best evidence practice, the development, implementation and evaluation of attempting to improving the health outcomes for vulnerable population groups. Professor Sanson-Fisher played a significant role in establishing the Behavioural Science Group in Relation to Medicine at the University of Newcastle. He also was the initiator of the Hunter Centre for Health Advancement and Director of the New South Wales Cancer Education Research Program.health service models, assessment of unmet needs of cancer patients and The research training and publications, which resulted from this group, have received national and international recognition. These research achievements were recognised with the group being designated a WHO Centre of Excellence with Professor Sanson- Fisher as the director. He was the inaugural director of the National Cancer control Institute. More recently Rob finished a four-year term as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Newcastle. In 2000 he was awarded the Hunter Medical Research Institute Award for Research Excellence.

Fields of Research

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Description

Percentage

111700

Public Health And Health Services

60

111299

Oncology And Carcinogenesis Not Elsewhere Classified

25

160508

Health Policy

15

Memberships

Editorial Board.

Behavioural Medicine Multidisciplinary Health Education

Cancer Strategy Journal of Criminal Justice and Behaviour

Journal of Behavioural Psychotherapy

The Australian Psychologist

Appointments

Member of Executive CommitteeNewcastle Institute of Public Health (Australia)

Lynagh MC, Sanson-Fisher RW, Bonevski B, 'What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander. Guiding Principles for the Use of Financial Incentives in Health Behaviour Change', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE, 20 114-120 (2013) [C1]

Yoong SL, Carey M, Sanson-Fisher R, D'Este C, 'Prevalence and correlates of overweight and obesity in adult Australian general practice patients', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 37 586-586 (2013) [C3]

Doran CM, Girgis A, Sanson-Fisher RW, 'Smoking by adolescents: Three years later, there's even larger revenue but little for prevention', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 22(3) 321-323 (1998) [C1]

Byles JE, SansonFisher RW, 'Mass mailing campaigns to promote screening for cervical cancer: Do they work, and do they continue to work?', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 20 254-260 (1996)

Girgis A, Sanson-Fisher R, 'Community based health education: general practitioners' perceptions of their role and willingness to participate.', Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 20 381-385 (1996)

Gordon JJ, Saunders NA, Hennrikus D, Sanson-Fisher RW, 'Interns' performances with simulated patients at the beginning and the end of the intern year', Journal of General Internal Medicine, 7 57-62 (1992)

SCHOFIELD MJ, HENNRIKUS DJ, REDMAN S, SANSONFISHER RW, 'PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE HAD A HYSTERECTOMY IN A COMMUNITY SURVEY', AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, 31 153-158 (1991)

SANSONFISHER RW, REDMAN S, OAK S, WEBB G, 'THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS THAT IS IMPOSED BY DRUG-ABUSE AND THE ALLOCATION OF RESEARCH MONIES IN THE FIELD - 3 VIEWS', MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, 149 134-138 (1988)

Stewart JM, Sanson-Fisher RW, Eades S, 'Rates of agreement between general practitioners and patients of an Aboriginal community controlled health organisation on risk status for chronic disease', Proceedings of the 3rd Coalition for Research to Improve Aboriginal Health (CRIAH) Aboriginal Health Research Conference, Sydney, NSW (2011) [E3]

2010

Paul CL, Bonevski B, Bryant JL, Sanson-Fisher RW, 'Approaches to tobacco control and population effects: how good is the evidence that standard approaches are equitable', 12th Annual Meeting of the SRNT Europe Programme, Bath, UK (2010) [E3]

Sanson-Fisher RW, 'Accelerating the development of evidence for drug and alcohol practice and policy', The Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD) Conference: Abstracts, Sydney, NSW (2008) [E3]

Grants and Funding

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2015 (4 grants)

The Partnership Centre on Systems Perspectives on Preventing Lifestyle-Related Chronic Health Problems, also known as The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre or (TAPPC)$150,000Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Proof of Concept Study Examining the Impact of Introducing the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards from the Perspective of Patients and Healthcare Consumers$108,357Funding Body: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Reducing psychosocial burden among women diagnosed with breast cancer and their support persons: A randomised controlled trial of a web-based intervention.$20,000Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

2010 (6 grants)

Evaluating the effectiveness of a strategy to increase the adoption of best evidence practice. A cluster randomised controlled trial in acute stroke care$772,950Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Evaluating the effectiveness of a strategy to increase the adoption of best evidence practice. A cluster randomised controlled trial in acute stroke care $50,000Funding Body: Victorian Department of Health

Delay in seeking treatment for symptoms of bowel cancer: a community survey of self-reported delay timeframes and triggers for seeking treatment among those aged 55+$21,485Funding Body: Hunter Children`s Research Foundation

The acceptability and effectiveness of a system based approach to reducing CV risk, including depression and lifestyle risk factors in rural and remote general practices. A RCT.$189,422Funding Body: National Heart Foundation of Australia

Assessing the value and usefulness of a cancer-registry based systematic approach to advising first degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients about their risks and need for screening$64,000Funding Body: Australian Rotary Health